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What else is needed?

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I saw this was already started. I think keeping it simple is the way to go... Definitely name, author, year of publication, but how about also throwing in "type" and/or "movement"? (i.e. Narrative poem, Romanticism, etc). Maybe # of lines? --Midnightdreary 03:11, 6 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Given being read-aloud is a big part of poetry, directly supporting audio (from wikicommons) could be a good idea Back ache (talk) 08:25, 16 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

COinS

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I've added COinS metadata - please test it! Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 22:30, 2 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Updates

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I've added an |original_title_lang= parameter; use the relevant ISO639-2 code e.g. "fr" for French, "de" for German.

I've also added an hCalendar microformat, so please use {{Start date}} for the first publication date. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 09:56, 14 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Lines

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The documentation has

|lines = Number of lines in the poem

but there is no parameter in the template. I think it would be useful as an option, to show a difference between Trees (poem) (12) and Der Busant (1074). --Gerda Arendt (talk) 22:23, 1 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

There is now ;-) Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 23:39, 1 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Additional parameters and design issue

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Two questions:

  1. Can the template be modified to place the name and author information inside the infobox like most other infoboxes do? Perhaps one like {{Infobox musical composition}} Example 2.
  2. Can we get parameters in the template for the following data:
  • Written: (date or year range)
  • Form: (i.e. Sonnet, Quatrain, Ode...etc)
  • Meter: (i.e. iambic pentameter)
  • Rhyme scheme: (i.e. abba cddc effe gg)

Thanks for your attention to this request.--ColonelHenry (talk) 12:45, 2 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

That should all now be working; the new parameters are |subtitle=, |written=, |form=, |meter=, |rhyme=. Do you have an example, where these can be applied? What explanatory articles, if any, should the labels link to? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:25, 5 September 2013 (UTC)[reply]

error

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Guys, there is a wikicode formatting error on this template's page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Smuckola (talkcontribs) 01:21, 19 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Help me

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Could someone with knowledge of template documentation formatting please help repair this page which is currently unreadable in my laptop view because of the width of the right-hand box. Thanks! Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 08:07, 19 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Shhhnotsoloud: Looking at {{parameter names example}} and adding a value to |isbn= got rid of the long error message. I don't know if it is quite by the book, but I hope this solved your display problems. Sam Sailor 12:06, 19 August 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Wikisource parameter

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Does the Wikisource parameter require the name parameter in order to work? If so, can this be explained more clearly in the template documentation? I just spent quite a while trying to fix the link in The Wild Swans at Coole (poem) before realising what it needed. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 20:43, 13 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Oral poetry

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Thinking about using this for Homeric Hymns, but doesn't quite fit at the moment. Any chance of:

  • An option to change "written" to "composed" (this would be useful for e.g. Iliad too)
  • Perhaps an option to change "by" to "attributed to"...?

Thanks, UndercoverClassicist T·C 16:41, 29 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

  • I have gone ahead and done this. Tested in several pages and I can't see that I've broken anything (in theory, if the new parameters are not used, the template behaves exactly as it did before: if they are used, as now in Homeric Hymns, it seems to work well), but please ping me if anything strange starts happening. UndercoverClassicist T·C 15:57, 5 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]